a. [ad. L. sōricīn-us, f. sōrex SOREX.] Resembling a shrew-mouse. Freq. in specific names of animals.
1781. Pennant, Hist. Quadrup., II. 453. The Soricine Rat … inhabits the neighborhood of Strasbourg.
1801. Shaw, Gen. Zool., II. I. 65. Soricine Mouse. Mus Soricinus.… This is an extremely small species.
1827. Griffith, trans. Cuvier, V. 72. Vampyrus Soricinus (Soricine Vampyre of Spix).
c. 1878. Cassell’s Nat. Hist., I. 333. The Soricine Bat,… Glossophaga soricina.… [It] is a small bat.
